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" Reliability, maintainability and risk : "
David J. Smith.
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BL
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723702
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b543417
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David J. Smith.
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Reliability, maintainability and risk : : practical methods for engineers\ David J. Smith.
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5th ed
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Oxford ; Boston: Butterworth Heinemann, 1997
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xii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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0750608544
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: 0750637528
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: 9780750608541
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: 9780750637527
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| Contents
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Understanding Reliability Parameters and Costs --;The history of reliability and safety technology --;Failure data --;Hazardous failures --;Reliability and risk prediction --;Achieving reliability and safety-integrity --;The RAMS-cycle --;Contractual pressures --;Understanding terms and jargon --;Defining failure and failure modes --;Failure Rate and Mean Time Between Failures --;Interrelationships of terms --;The Bathtub Distribution --;Down Time and Repair Time --;Availability --;Hazard and risk-related terms --;Choosing the appropriate parameter --;A cost-effective approach to quality, reliability and safety --;The cost of quality --;Reliability and cost --;Costs and safety --;Interpreting Failure Rates --;Realistic failure rates and prediction confidence --;Data accuracy --;Sources of data --;Data ranges --;Confidence limits of prediction --;Overall conclusions --;Interpreting data and demonstrating reliability --;The four cases --;Inference and confidence levels --;The Chi-square Test --;Double-sided confidence limits --;Summarizing the Chi-square Test --;Reliability demonstration --;Sequential testing --;Setting up demonstration tests --;Variable failure rates and probability plotting --;The Weibull Distribution --;Using the Weibull Method --;More complex cases of the Weibull Distribution --;Continuous processes --;Predicting Reliability and Risk --;Essential reliability theory --;Why predict RAMS? --;Probability theory --;Reliability of series systems --;Redundancy rules --;General features of redundancy.
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Engineering design.
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Maintainability (Engineering)
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Reliability (Engineering)
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TA169.D385 1997
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David J Smith
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